An 18-year-old boy died when doctors tried to create a vagina for him using part of his colon.
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🤢 These people are sick! 🤮
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Screwing around with hormones is such a delicate business that it should only ever be attempted GENTLY in case of dire need. Height is still feelings, not life-endagering.
Puberty blockers cause sterilization, under-development of bones- that's lifetime, irrecoverable effects, and there are more.
We do not have the capability of doing this without significant side effects. Most people have no idea how many biological pathways each individual hormone is in. No vitamin, no hormone only does one thing, or two things... More like a dozen things. That we know of.
There are also studies that show girls are entering puberty at far younger years today than historically. Hormones in milk, for example, growth hormones in meat
This shouldn’t be common, or done without serious consideration. But some girls beginning their periods before they are 10 yrs old are probably the exceptions
If there are options; I am entirely open